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THE COMMERCIAL
.Marjhall & Baird, Union City, Tenn
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
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Real Estate and insurance
Do You Know the
Difference in Soaps?
Any old soap can look good and smell good and
be no good for any purpose.
A pure soap made from clean animal or vegetable
fats is the one true cleanser. A little of your favorite
odor.makes its use a dainty delight.
The soaps we sell you can trust. They are pure,
perfect cleansers, and aid in preserving the complexion.
They appeal to the most dainty toilet demand, and are
as safe to use on baby's tender skin as on your own.
We have an assortment ample enough, too, to enable
a selection that will meet your own fancy.
Chas. M. Henderson.
NEW DRUG STORE
The particular store for particular people
Corner First and Washington Sts. UNION CITY.
Chas. Williams
XElflAS
Let Us Load Your Tables With
Goods of the Highest Quality
Foil Line of Groceries and Grocer's
Sundries for Every Occasion
Williams -Ei Adams
Special Agents
"WE DELIVER THE GOODS"
Telephone 421
Letters to Santa Glaus.
Dear Santa: I am a littlo boy 5 years
old. Tlcase brtDg me a wagon, train
and track, a horn, firecrackers, ronian
candles, fruit and candy. Don't forget
my mania and papa and grandma.
Max Noijsn
Dear Santa: I am a little girl 3 y3ars
old. I want you to please bring me a
big doll and doll buggy and my stock
ing full of candy; nuts and all kinds of
fruits. Don't forget mania, papa and
grandma. Mary Lillie Xoi.es..
Dear Santa: Please briug nie a great
big 'doll and some little dishes, and I
would like to have'a nice little ring and
lots of good things to eat.
Fay Dyep.
Dear Santa: . I want you to bring nie
a train and a nice book to read, for I
go to school every day. J want a gun
and if it is not asking too much of you
bring me a harp and something nice for
my two little brothers.
Freddie Dyer.
Dear Santa: lam a little girl 10 years
old and go to school every day. I want,
you to please bring me some nice hair
ribbon and a nice work box, some nice
flower vases and lots of good things to
eat. Ruby Vaughn.
Dear Santa: I am a little boy 6 years
old and go to school. Please bring me
a knife and a jumping rabbit and lots
of good things to eat.' Don't forget
mama and papa. Johnnie Vaughn.
Dear Santa: I want you to bring me
a little rocking chair, a plate, cup and
saucer, a little automobile and some
nice things to eat.' I am two years old.
R.F. D. 7. Denzil Maupin.
Dear Santa: Flease bring me a nice
Frank Adams
v 306 East Main Street
baby bumper and a little chair, some
candy and fruits anii some sparklers,
and please bring my little sister, Pau
line, a baby bumper, too, so she will
not want mine. My Danny says I am
the prettiest girl in Tennessee.
Mary Etta Burnett.
Dear Santa: I haven't been a very
good boy this year, so mother says, but
I hope you won't forget me. I am C
years old, ani I want a red auto, an air
gun, all the fire works I can shoot and
all the candy I can eat.
Gerald Owxiiy Cuklin
Dear Santa: We are littlo boys seven
and five years old. We want you to
come to see us and bring a little wagon
a pistol, some marbles, plenty of tire'
works and nice things to eat. I have
two grandmothers and one grandpa
Please don't forget them and mama and
daddy. Claude and Harold Julian.
Dear Santa :J I am a little girl 8 years
old, in the fourth grade and I want you
to bring me a vase, a statue and a little
lamp and lots of good things to eat and
please don't forget little brother.. He
wants a little pig.
Alethia Ola Vaughn.
Dear Santa: We thank you forremem
bering us before and wish to tell you
that we have kept very nicely the dolls
you brought us and ask you to bring us
nice little suit cases for their new clothes.
We are learning to help mama, so bring
us a little broom apiece and lots of good
things to eat. Don't forget our little
brother Robert. He will be seven that
day. We are four and two.
Mary Ellen,
and Elizabeth Adams
Dear Santa: We are three little chil
dren, eight, five and two years old
Bring me a doll with black hair and
eyes and can go 'to sleep, a story book,
a pair of blue garters, some gloves and
bring brother J. R. a white curly dog, a
horse, hitched to a wagon, ball and story
book and bring little brother Arthur
Boyd a little red chair, a wagon, ball
and a little doll. Don't forget to bring
us all kinds of fruits and some fireworks.
Marie Felts, J. R. and
Arthur Boyd Cheatham.
Dear Santa: Will you please come
and bring me an air gun and some caps
for ray little pistol and some large fire
works and anything you think I'd like
, Fred Reid.
Dear Santa: I am seven years old
and go to school. I want an air gun, a
harp, big firecrackers, roman candles
and a large green frog, lots of bananas
and orangos. Don't forget me.
Chester Reid.
Dear Santa: I am a little girl of
eleven. Please bring me a big doll and
a doll buggy, a set of little dishes, and
lots of nice things to eat.
Lillian Gale.
Dear Santa: I am a little boy of six.
Flease bring me some books, marbles,
fireworks, a top and plenty of nuts,
fruits and candy. Theo. Cloar.
Hickman, R. F. D. 5.
Dear Santa: I am a little girl of ten
and live in Kentucky. Flease bring me
u big doll, a small stove and plenty of
fruits and nuts. Don't forget Annie
May Jones and Curtis McCarty in Cali
fornia. Lola Brown.
Deaf Santa: I am little girl, seven
years old. Please bring me a big doll,
a set of small dishes and a little teddy
bear, apples, oranges, candy and pea
nuts. Freddie Brown.
Dear Santa: Please bring me a nice
little sweetheart. I'll be very thankful
if you will. Henry Howard.
Dear Santa: Please bring me a cap
pistol, apples, oranges, candy, raisins,
automobile, tricycle and a horn.
7 Boit Howar.
Dear Santa: Please bring me some
colored pencils and a drawing book, a
cook stove, a little sewing machine and
a little go-cart, a bfg coeoanut, some
apples, oranges, raisins aud candy.
M attic May Howard.
Dear Santa: Please bring me some
apples, oranges, raisins, and a box of
candy, firecrackers, roman candles.
, Hallin D. Roberts.
Dear Santa: Please bring me some
oranges, apples, and a box of chocolate
candy, raisins, firecrackers and roman
candles. Eva Roberts.
Dear Santa: Please bring me a big
wagon, caps for my pistol, oranges,
apples, candy, nuts of all kinds, tire
crackers and roman candles.
Jamks Turelkeld.
Woodland Mills, Tenn. . . . .
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About which you are hesitating:.
some of our useful, sensible gifts
Parisian Ivory and Silv
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Toilet Sets
Manicure Sets
Hand Mirrors
Hair Brushes
Clothes Brushes
Combs nd many other
odd pieces
Beautiful Sets for Baby
, The famous GIBSON ' '
ART Cards
Calendars, Booklets
Folders, Seals, Tags,
Boxes and Decorations
FOR XMAS
A Snap-shot that always hits, a KODAK, the very thing. Save
our cash register checks and get a pretty present FREE.
Oliver's Red Cross Drug' vStore
Short Course a Great Success,
Probably no teacher ever bad a mote
interested and attentive class than did
the agricultural teachers, who came be
fore their classes last week. In spite of
the weather man and hog killing, the
short course marked a new epoch in the
agricultural history of Obion County.
The attendance made a rapid increase
from twenty farmers on Monday morn
iug until the end of the week, reaching
the maximum" and filling the school
room on Saturday. A conservative es
timate of the total attendance would not
be less than four hundred farmers, and
that too of the best, intelligent, pro
gressive farmers of the county. A very
remarkable thing happened. It has
come to be almost a truism with agricul
tural reformers that owners of'very rich
soils can hardly be interested in soil im
provement. This rule was shattered to
pieces when it became evident, from the
very first day, that those who came did
so not out oi a mere iaie curiosity or
with a desire to criticize "book farm
ing," but they came in an earnest atti
tude of sympathy and with a marked
determination to know the truth about
their own business and having gotten
hold of nature's mysteries to solve that
most important problem soil improve
ment. The speakers themselves seemed to
feel the spirit of enthusiasm in the air
and they went in for all they were
worth, beginning at the very "alpha
bet of agriculture," progressing in a
straightforward, simple manner through
the production of crops, food and other
requirements of plants to the more ad
vanced subjects of stock feeding, dairy
ing, truck growing aod even to the re
direction of the rural school and church,
and, indeed, rural community life. The
soil feeds the plant, the plant feeds the
animal and the animal feeds the soil,
was nature's wise decree. Man cannot
change it without he or his children pay
the penalty of soil depletion, dilapi
dated schools and churches and a stag
nated community life.
Deep plowing, lime, alfalfa, red clo-
ver, nairy vetcu, soy ocans, suos, im
proved and increased farm animals, bet
ter schools are only stepping stones to
higher ideals, namely saving the coun
try, the town and the Nation.
While this fact was not placed in the
foreground, at times the undercurrent
became so strong that it burst forth in
the midst of a lecture on alfalfa or
pruning fruit trees. It is the goal to
ward which these men of vision are
ading.
Perhaps the most outstanding, bard
pressed fact of the entire week was the
plea for the conservation if not the in
crease in soil fertility. Obion County
soils, though fertile beyond all others of
the State, are not inexhaustible. There
fore begin now, for poverty is helpless.
This was the timely warning of Prof. C.
Keffer in charge of the extension
works of the University of Tennessee.
He explained how the University,
through a desire to serve the people of
the State in a more definite and direct
manner, bad sought to send its trained
representatives to the people to aid in
their problems.
It saw that red clover began to grow j
little less vigorously, how corn and
wheat had felt the loss. It sought the
remedy in the proper use of lime and
deep plowing. Having found it there,
it is trying to carry the lesson out to
Fins Stationery
In Holiday attire. 'Hand
some Cabinets, Beautiful Boxes
Speeial Cards and Folders.with
envelopes,
Some Every Day
Useful Gifts
Rubber Gloves, Bath Caps
Bath Sprays, Bath Mitts, Good
Hair Brush, Chamois Vest,
Safety Razor, Fountain Pen,
Manicure Scissors, Bill Books,
Pocket Books, etc., etc.
the people, not only of red clover, but
also its cousins and helpers, alfalfa, soy
beans, vetch, etc.
Prof. H. A. Morgan held the atten
tion of his class hour after hour teach
ing the lesson of fewer acres of corn and
more alfalfa, less wheat' and more bar
ley, fewer cats of corn and more cars of
livestockless poor stands of clover and
more lime. He realizes that the change
must be a gradual one, adapted to the
particular farm on which it is made.
In this connection be indorsed the work r
of Mr.'McAmis in his study of the pe
culiar needs of our soils and offered his
Milk A?m&r
GEM THEATRE
ChriotmQO ilcnr Dec- 25 19,3
II! lOllllao Uay, Afternoon and Night
George Kleine, who produced Quo Vadis, announces his lat
est triumph, "The Last Days of Pompeii," 8000 Feet, Six Parts,
from Lord Bulwer Lytton's Famous Novel. Now playing to
capacity audiences at the Bijou
City. Endorsed by the Board
picture every school child should
Follow the crowd. Everybody's seeing it.
PRICES 10 and 20 Cents.
Hardy
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Christinas Candies
" and : J
Fire Works
Fruits of AU Kinds. Also a nice line of Fruit Cake.
-.' We handle a full line of
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Timothy and Clover Hay, Bran, Corn Chops, and in
fact, everything in the feed line.
Call us up.
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Let us show you
that are beautiful
Perfumes and Sachets
Fine imported odors,
Pretty cut glass bottles, Beauti
ful Combinations, Useful Pack
ages in nice gift boxes, for men
and women.
Rich cut-glass Atomizers
Pipes and Cigars
Carl Pipes, Briar, . Meer
chaum, Amber, handsomely
mounted in gold and silver.
Fine Cigars, all the best in
boxes '
25c to $5.00
Pretty Cigar Cases and Holders
assistance in every way possible in the
undertaking.
No one w ho heard Prof. Morgan be
lieves that he is only a "theorist", Na
ture seemed to unlock her storehouse of
knowledge to him, and his facts came
so logically that we are forced to believe
the changes must be made. His parting
word to the many friends which he
made in Obion County were: "Lime,
build a silo on every farm, keep more
stock, build rural schools.
Serial lectures of the courso will ftp-
appear in this paper later.
Alwyn Bkevard, Sec.
GEORGE KLEINES
PHOTO-DRAMA
ISITE
Theatre, Broadway, New York
of Education of New York as a
see.
Glass
Phones 7 and 14.